Concerning news for California: El Niño’s misbehavin’. But there is still time for him to do the right thing

Woops. Thanks to a dearth of precipitation combined with warm temperatures, snowpack in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains has dipped below average. Given that El Niño was supposed to be California’s great drought-bustin’ hope, this is a little concerning.

I put together the animation above to show what has happened in the Sierra over the past two weeks. The mountains run diagonally through the frames.